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Sankalp

Boys' name

The Will personified, through संकल्प

Sankalp has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Sankalp, 2023

1 in 474,000

Sankalp over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sankalp: meaning, origin, and history

The Will personified, through संकल्प

Sanskrit

What Sankalp means

Sankalp belongs to the name family reached through Sankalp → संकल्प. Its meaning is “the Will personified”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sankalp is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sankalp comes through Sanskrit संकल्प.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include संकल्प.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 113 boys were recorded with the name Sankalp between 2000 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2010; its best national rank was #6,633 in 2010.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sankalp?

Sankalp had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sankalp sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sankalp. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sankalps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sankalp was born before 2009 — so the typical Sankalp is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
113
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.4% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Sankalp rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (13)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,633
2010

Where Sankalp is used

Across 1910–2025, Sankalp was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sankalp has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sankalp around the world

Where Sankalp ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Sankalp by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,633
2010
Peak year
2010
13 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sankalp

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sankalp

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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